Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40715

Universal Credit: Disability

Tabled: 24 March 2025

Answered: 31 March 2025

Question

Graeme Downie

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

No decision has been made on this policy. The key principle of our focus for 18-21 year olds should be helping them to be earning or learning, because of the long-term scarring effects for young people of a period of unemployment. That is why we are consu...

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